$600; Rory Rees Brennan summarises his WSOP 2009 experience.

YET another World Series passes. I only played four events; two PLO ($5k and $10k) and two NLH ($1,5k and $10k Main Event) events.

I felt I played more or less my best in all, bar the $5k PLO where I was probably a bit impatient and perhaps a little loose.

To cut a long story short, I didn't go far in the $10k PLO and more or less bubbled both the NLH events.

All in all it was a very disappointing series for me but I've been getting whipped by Vegas ever since I turned 21, so I'm getting used to it now.

Maybe one day I'll have my vengeance with minimum cash in a $1500 event or something.

With regards to my main event, I busted a couple of hours into day three.

I started the day with 130k, while the blinds were at 600-1200-100 and the average stack being about 110k.

My table draw for day three was about average, with some good and some okay players; however everything that really could have gone wrong for me, did.

SICK I found a good few big pairs in the blinds or in late position, re-raised with them, got called, the flop was repulsive every time but I usually just C-bet strongly enough and either guys stuck in half their stack or else waited until the river to stick in a sick amount.

I got very frustrated, as this happened three or four times and suddenly my stack was down to about 60k.

I then tightened up for a while, until it was folded to me in the cut-off and I opened to 4200 at 800-1600 and the button re-raised to 12000.

At this point I had just over 50k and had felt like I was just being pushed around and I'd had enough of this.

I quickly shoved the 50k+ still hoping he could fold an AQ type hand. He called immediately and despite the J89 flop I couldn't hold vs. his AK.

That would've got me back over 100k and back in the hunt but it wasn't to be.

Even though I finished about 1500th with 650 making the money, I didn't mind too much since I felt I played okay over the three days and I learned a lot.

Every time I go to Vegas I see so many good players, along with some very capable ones. I always feel like I've learned a decent bit in general and also about my own game.

Back to the online PLO grind for me for a while. Not going to be playing sick amounts for the rest of the summer but I'll probably log in 20/25 hours a week! Someone's gotta pay for Vegas 2010!

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